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Guardian Awakening

PvE Combo Guide

Guardian Awakening

Main Combo

This is an infinite combo. To loop it, continue the next skill rotation with Flow: To Ashes from either hotbar or Frost Slide, then carry on from Glorious Advance (S+LMB).

  1. Shift+A/D/S/W
    Frost SlideLeads into Flow: To Ashes; +10% Movement Speed
  2. LMB
    Flow: To AshesHotbar or after Frost Slide
  3. S+LMB
    Glorious Advance+20% Attack Speed for 20 sec
  4. Shift+Q
    God IncineratorTop damage skill
  5. Hold Q
    Fireborne RuptureAll AP +20 for 10 sec
  6. Shift+F
    Cleansing FlameSkips the Dragon's Maw charge-up
  7. Shift+LMB
    Dragon's Maw
  8. Hold LMB
    Flow: Howling LightTop damage skill
  9. Shift+RMB
    Searing Fang2 hits
  10. S+RMB
    Scornful Slash2 hits
  11. A/D+RMB
    Fierce Disdain
  12. S+F
    Gate CrasherComes out instantly after Fierce Disdain

PvE Combo Guide

DPS Priority List

Use the skills higher on the list first for the most damage.

High Priority

Mid Priority

Low Priority / Filler

Movement

Class Mobility

Movement Between Packs

  1. W+F
    Awakening: JuggernautLow cooldown, long range, has collision
  2. Hotbar
    Infernal NemesisLong cooldown, no collision

Infernal Nemesis is shorter range, but it flies over mobs and some terrain. Over the same amount of time both skills cover the same distance. Juggernaut goes a little farther only because it lasts longer. Pick whichever fits the situation. If you leave Infernal Nemesis unlocked, it is on S+F.

Repositioning in Packs

  1. W+RMB
    Frigid Wind
  2. Shift+A/D/S/W
    Frost Slide
  3. A/D+RMB
    Fierce Disdain
  4. W+Q
    Black Blood's DescentWorks from Awakening too
  5. Shift+A/S/D
    Evasion

Use one or more of these between mobs to move around the pack, depending on the situation.

Build Notes

Class Specifics

Skills to Lock

  1. Neck Impaler
  2. Infernal Steps
  3. Scalding Thorn
  4. Infernal Nemesis
    Optional

Keep Unlocked (Main Tab)

  1. Fierce Disdain
  2. Axe Throw
    Optional
  3. Foretold Encounter
  4. Claw Reveal
  5. Black Blood's Descent
  6. Gate Crasher
  7. Evasion
    Optional

Skill Enhancements

  1. Pulverization
    Lv. 56
  2. Omua's Circle
    Lv. 57
  3. Sturdy Smite
    Lv. 58

Hotkey Skills

  1. Flow: To Ashes
    Hotkey
  2. Fireborne Rupture
    Hotkey
  3. Cleansing Flame
    Optional
  4. Sturdy Smite
    Hotkey
  5. Infernal Nemesis
    Hotkey
  6. Omua's Blessing
    E buff
  7. Frigid Wind
    Mouse key

Skill Add-ons

Class Addons

Gate Crasher

Prerequisite: Use the [Secret Book] Abyssal Legacy ([The Magnus] Abyssal Revelation ...

Skill Add-on Effect

  • All Damage Reduction +20 for 15 sec
  • Movement Speed +10% for 12 sec

Searing Fang I

Charge forward after smashing down on the ground with your jordun.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec

God Incinerator I

Erupt the flames within your jordun upon the surface.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
  • All Damage Reduction -20 for 10 sec to target

Cleansing Flame I

Spin around, then slash across with a powerful ...

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec

Dragon's Maw I

Kindle the flames within your jordun, then blast it forward to set enemies ablaze.

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
  • All Damage Reduction -20 for 10 sec to target

Flow: To Ashes

Preceding Skill: [Cleansing Flame III] Unleash a mighty slash with the ...

Skill Add-on Effect

  • Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec
  • Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec

PvE Combo Guide

Advanced Information

PvE Combo Guide

Alternative Combos

Main Combo (Low AP)

Here Fireborne Rupture comes before God Incinerator. It does about the same damage as the regular order, it is just better to start with it earlier if you have low AP.

  1. LMB
    Flow: To AshesHotbar or after Frost Slide
  2. S+LMB
    Glorious Advance
  3. Space
    Fireborne RuptureBefore God Incinerator
  4. Shift+Q
    God Incinerator
  5. Shift+F
    Cleansing FlameSkips the Dragon's Maw charge-up
  6. Shift+LMB
    Dragon's Maw
  7. Hold LMB
    Flow: Howling LightTop damage skill
  8. Shift+RMB
    Searing Fang2 hits
  9. S+RMB
    Scornful Slash2 hits
  10. A/D+RMB
    Fierce Disdain
  11. S+F
    Gate CrasherComes out instantly after Fierce Disdain

Dragon's Maw Combo

This one beats the Main Combo at some spots, but for most areas the Main Combo is all you need.

  1. Shift+LMB
    Dragon's MawPrebuff with Glorious Advance for the first mob pack
  2. Hold LMB
    Flow: Howling Light
  3. Shift+F
    Cleansing Flame
  4. LMB
    Flow: To Ashes
  5. S+LMB
    Glorious Advance
  6. Shift+Q
    God Incinerator
  7. Hold Q
    Fireborne Rupture
  8. Shift+RMB
    Searing Fang2 hits
  9. S+RMB
    Scornful Slash2 hits
  10. A/D+RMB
    Fierce Disdain
  11. S+F
    Gate Crasher

Flow: Suppress Combo

Less damage than the Main Combo overall, but you move less, so it is easier to use at some spots.

  1. LMB
    Flow: To AshesHotbar or after Frost Slide
  2. S+LMB
    Glorious Advance
  3. Shift+Q
    God Incinerator
  4. Hold Q
    Fireborne Rupture
  5. S+RMB
    Scornful Slash2 hits
  6. Shift+F
    Cleansing Flame
  7. Shift+LMB
    Dragon's Maw
  8. Hold LMB
    Flow: Howling Light
  9. Shift+RMB
    Searing Fang2 hits
  10. Hold RMB
    Flow: Suppress

Main Combo (Short)

The short versions cut the full combos down. Stop as soon as every mob in the pack is dead. Use the short Main Combo at Tungrad Ruins and the short Dragon's Maw Combo at Darkseekers, and the full Main Combo at harder spots like Orbita.

  1. LMB
    Flow: To AshesHotbar or after Frost Slide
  2. S+LMB
    Glorious Advance2 hits
  3. Shift+Q
    God Incinerator
  4. Hold Q
    Fireborne Rupture
  5. Shift+F
    Cleansing Flame
  6. Shift+RMB
    Searing Fang
  7. S+RMB
    Scornful Slash2 hits

Dragon's Maw Combo (Short)

  1. Shift+LMB
    Dragon's MawPrebuff with Glorious Advance for the first mob pack
  2. Hold LMB
    Flow: Howling Light
  3. Shift+F
    Cleansing Flame
  4. LMB
    Flow: To Ashes
  5. S+LMB
    Glorious Advance
  6. Shift+Q
    God Incinerator
  7. Hold Q
    Fireborne Rupture
  8. Shift+RMB
    Searing Fang2 hits

Change Log

October 22, 2026

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    PvP minimum damage when the target's defense exceeds your attack raised from 5% to 7%.All classes

  • All

    Black Blood Circle: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

October 15, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Chokeslam: Marni's Combat Analyzer now records its grab as a grab instead of a normal attack.Both specs

October 8, 2026

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Unified the level-based base stats (Max HP, HP Recovery, All AP, All Damage Reduction and All Evasion) for every class. Class-specific stat differences now come from a new passive skill learned automatically at Lv. 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70.All classes

  • All

    Added the common skill Godslayer: Force Palm (Lv. 60+). Its Secret Book is obtained at A Freesword's Hearth in Voidekaia after finishing the Inner Edania main quests.All classes

August 20, 2026

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    Gate Crasher: PvE damage +5% (7,557% → 7,935% per attack). PvP ratio lowered so PvP damage stays the same.Both specs

  • PvE

    PvE damage lowered about 5–6%: Cleansing Flame, Dragon's Maw, Searing Fang, Scornful Slash. PvP ratios raised so PvP damage stays the same.

  • All

    Flow: Howling Light: Jordun's Fire damage 633% → 703% per hit; its burn damage over time was removed.

May 21, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Guard: Fixed Guard being unusable with low Stamina, Stamina not recovering at the start, and sprinting during Guard with low Stamina.Both specs

May 14, 2026

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Neck Impaler: Grapple range about 33% shorter; wind-up is now the same regardless of the previous combo.

  • PvP

    Chokeslam: Grapple range about 50% longer.Both specs

April 9, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Gate Crasher: Cooldown 12 → 9 sec.Both specs

February 12, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Removed "Extra Damage to Guard Gauge" (including Extra Fixed Damage to Guard Gauge) from all skills.All classes

February 5, 2026

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Absolute: Strike Down: Fixed it being unlearnable if Gate Crasher was learned first.Both specs

October 30, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Claw Reveal: Fixed Claw Reveal (I–Absolute) being usable repeatedly after certain skills.Both specs

September 25, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Manual combos now as fast as Quick Slot: Fierce Disdain, Fireborne Rupture, God Incinerator, Infernal Nemesis, Neck Impaler, Frigid Wind and Cleansing Flame from their usual Awakening links.

August 14, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fierce Disdain: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

July 31, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Cleansing Flame: Corrected the skill description.

July 24, 2025

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Combat system overhaul: Resistance and Ignore Resistance reworked, AP, DP reduction and Special Attack damage gaps between classes narrowed, and Special Attack damage effects of the same type no longer stack.All classes

  • All

    Infinite Mastery now grants Accuracy +18 and All Accuracy +18 per skill level.All classes

  • All

    Bone Freezing Wind: Critical Hit Damage +10% → All AP +20.Both specs

  • All

    Skill damage multiplier +4.3% to offset the AP rebalance.

May 29, 2025

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Dragon's Maw: Smoother combos and controls.

March 13, 2025

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Frost Slide: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Flow: Suppress, Flow: Howling Light, Scalding Thorn: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Glorious Advance: Attack Speed duration 10 → 20 sec.

  • All

    Glorious Advance, Searing Fang, Flow: Suppress, God Incinerator, Cleansing Flame, Dragon's Maw: Damage adjusted.

February 13, 2025

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Emergency Escape: Invincibility now also applies when you reappear; movement speed and Stamina recovery during the skill reduced; SPACE now jumps to higher terrain.All classes

  • PvE

    Combat Assistance can now only be used while total Family Level is 200 or lower; some skills deal less damage or lose effects when spammed during cooldown, while main PvE skills deal more damage.All classes

January 23, 2025

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Absolute: Black Blood's Descent: Corrected the skill description.

  • All

    Black Spirit: God Incinerator: Fixed a skill issue.

December 12, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

November 14, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

October 17, 2024

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

  • All

    Black Spirit: Black Blood Circle: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

September 26, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    Searing Fang: Fixed a skill issue.

August 29, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Prime: Black Blood Circle: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

August 22, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Dragon's Calling: Fixed a skill issue.

August 1, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

July 25, 2024

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Axe Throw, Omua's Flame, Dragon's Calling: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Sturdy Step: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

July 18, 2024

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

July 10, 2024

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

June 19, 2024

5 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Foretold Encounter, Merciless Smash, Pulverization, Black Blood Circle, Cleansing Flame, Guard, Searing Fang: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Flow: Howling Light: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Flow: Suppress, Frigid Wind: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Scalding Thorn, Black Spirit: Cleansing Flame: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

November 15, 2023

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • PvP

    Glorious Advance, Searing Fang, Flow: Suppress, Scornful Slash, God Incinerator, Flow: To Ashes, Cleansing Flame, Dragon's Maw: Damage adjusted.

  • PvP

    Fireborne Rupture: Damage adjusted.

September 20, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

September 13, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

September 6, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

August 9, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

July 19, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.All classes

July 5, 2023

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Class balance adjusted.All classes

June 21, 2023

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Suppress, Flow: To Ashes, Cleansing Flame, Black Spirit: Cleansing Flame, Black Spirit: Infernal Nemesis, Fireborne Rupture: Skill behavior improved.

  • All

    Frigid Wind: Smoother combos and controls.

  • PvP

    Dragon's Maw, Glorious Advance, Scornful Slash, Flow: To Ashes: PvP damage reduced.

  • All

    Flow: Howling Light, Searing Fang: Damage adjusted.

April 6, 2023

1 change
Official patch notes
  • PvE

    General class improvements.All classes

March 15, 2023

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Awakening: Juggernaut: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvP

    Fireborne Rupture, Flow: Suppress, Cleansing Flame, God Incinerator: Damage adjusted.

January 11, 2023

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Suppress, Flow: To Ashes, Dragon's Calling, Dragon's Maw: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvE

    Frigid Wind: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Flow: Howling Light: Fixed a skill issue.

November 23, 2022

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Flow: Black Blood Eruption, Flow: Suppress, Rockslide: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Scornful Slash: Fixed a skill issue.

October 19, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.All classes

  • All

    Gate Crasher: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

October 12, 2022

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    General class improvements.Both specs

  • All

    Glorious Advance: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Scornful Slash: Corrected the skill description.

September 7, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    God Incinerator: Fixed a skill issue.

August 23, 2022

3 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Neck Impaler, Cleansing Flame: Skill behavior improved.

  • PvP

    God Incinerator: PvP damage reduced.

  • PvP

    Searing Fang: Damage adjusted.

August 3, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.

July 27, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fierce Disdain: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Fireborne Rupture: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

June 15, 2022

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Pulverization: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

  • All

    Merciless Smash: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Searing Fang: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Scornful Slash: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

May 31, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Infernal Nemesis: Damage adjusted.

  • All

    Black Spirit: Cleansing Flame, Omua's Objurgation: Fixed a skill issue.

May 11, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

April 20, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: Low Blow: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

March 30, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Savage Hack: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

February 23, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

February 16, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Infernal Nemesis, Savage Hack: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

February 9, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Scornful Slash: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

  • All

    Scornful Slash: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

January 26, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Blood's Descent: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

  • All

    Black Spirit: Prime: Claw Reveal: Damage adjusted.Both specs

January 19, 2022

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Claw Reveal, Black Spirit: Absolute: Claw Reveal, Black Spirit: Infernal Nemesis, Black Spirit: Prime: Claw Reveal: Damage adjusted.Both specs

January 5, 2022

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Spirit: Black Blood Circle, Black Spirit: Prime: Black Blood Circle, Black Spirit: Fireborne Rupture: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • All

    Black Spirit: Fireborne Rupture: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

June 29, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

June 23, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Omua's Objurgation: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

May 26, 2021

4 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: To Ashes, Cleansing Flame: Smoother combos and controls.

  • All

    Searing Fang: Fixed a skill issue.

  • PvE

    Flow: Suppress: Damage adjusted.

  • PvE

    Cleansing Flame: Skill behavior improved.

April 28, 2021

2 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Omua's Circle: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

  • All

    Omua's Circle: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

April 21, 2021

6 changes
Official patch notes
  • All

    Fixed a class issue.Both specs

  • PvP

    Jordun Training: Corrected the skill description.Both specs

  • All

    Jordun Training: Damage adjusted.Both specs

  • PvP

    Jordun Training: PvP damage reduced.Both specs

  • All

    Searing Fang: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs

  • PvE

    Infernal Steps: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

April 7, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Black Blood's Descent: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs

March 17, 2021

1 change
Official patch notes
  • All

    Flow: To Ashes: Skill behavior improved.Both specs

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